About The ArtistsIn Barkmeier’s visual work, animals and humans share elements; one emerging out of the other in a transmutation that masks which originates and which follows. Rudy’s amorphous sound work shape-shifts through the identifiable to the indescribable. In each artist’s creative process, origins and boundaries become fluid and forms from the Dreamworld of the Great Mystery manifest through a thin veil.
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Paula Barkmeier |
Barkmeier’s imagery has been described as “the empathic connection between nature and man” and “the visualization of the cries of Mother Earth”. She vividly portrays the spiritual connection between the natural world and humanity. Her artwork reinforces the philosophy of interconnection in all things, reminding us of where we come from and where we once again will return. “The Earth does not belong to us, but that we belong to the Earth.” With tangible emotions emitting from the mylar, to experience her art is to experience yourself.
Artist's StatementWithin every one of us there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force of instinctual and creative being. My work speaks of a longing for wildness. Opposing forces of dark and light find their place.
The creatures inhabiting my installations are hybrids of real entities in nature and imaginary forms. Different perceptions of reality are questioned. Where do animal and human meet? Human and animal parts morph to form new species. Boundaries between the conscious and unconscious realms are blurred. One is invited to question the relationships between these creatures, and how they interact with us in our dreams, psyche, and everyday existence. Read more at PaulaBarkmeierArt |
Paul Rudy |
Rudy’s music has been described as “the Universe unfolding one sound at a time” and “a lifetime compressed into a hour.” He takes his participants on a sound journey, from earth to sky, that allows you to tap into both your primordial and celestial selves. Recognizable and transformed sounds allow one to engage and integrate mind, memory and body. Prepare to take a journey where your inner meets your outer and the universe within connects with the great beyond as all parts of us harmonize.
Artist's StatementMy music is made up of sounds from around the globe. The sounds I use traverse a distance from recognized and obvious, to eclipsed and highly altered and transformed. They are engaged for their beauty as well as their emotional content, and especially for a sonic residue that remains especially in digital capture. I place them in a context that maximizes mental, spatial, temporal, emotional, physical, and spiritual resonance. Transformation of sounds encourages an excursion into the hinterlands of each individual memory and imagination that chooses to partake. There is no attempt to fuse a narrative, but rather to create a landscape where you can trek at will, and pursue the pathways of your own instinct; re-writing your story, and perhaps even bumping into another yourself along the way.
The sound I make and channel is a creation story: not the ones gone by, but rather the one of our bright present, and our potent future. It listens to intuitive intelligence beyond what is known, and sings from ancient cosmology. It is music about the coming-of-age of our planet, and a growing consciousness that resonates inward to each individual at whatever stage along their path of enlightenment. It reverberates outward towards our universe where all entangles, bathed in resonant energy and nourished by harmonic convergence. Read more at ExploringTruthInSound Purchase music at CDBaby |